tuna@kailasa.lcs.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson) (07/07/90)
i posted a week or so ago asking for help porting X11R4 (libraries and include files only) to a personal iris running irix 3.2.1. i'm happy to report that, with some guidance from the net, i have succeeded. to summarize: first of all, it's probably important to note the words of Jeff Weinstein's recent comp.sys.sgi posting: Attention all people trying to compile X11R4 on sgi machines!! IRIX 3.3 has a complete set of ported/supported X11R4 clients and libraries, and a server that is X11R3 with some X11R4 stuff like shape extension thrown in. Note that the libraries, header files, and Imake config files are part of the X11 development tape distribution, which is sold at extra cost. It is also worth noting that 3.3 has a much improved X server. it is still my understanding, however, that the libraries and include files (the sgi "X development" tape/option) will not come bundled with irix 3.3 -- they will still be an extra-cost option. (please correct me if i'm wrong.) for those who are still interested in building X11R4 "by hand", i recommend you get jim helman's "4DX-patch1" via anonymous ftp from fresnel.stanford.edu (it's in /pub/4DX, or something like that). with these patches, i was able to build and install the X11R4 libraries and include files. (according to the patches, one should also be able to build the X11R4 clients.) for those of you who don't have access to anonymous FTP, i'd be happy to send you the patch file. kudos to jim helman for making these patches available. thanks to all those who replied to my original posting (Jeff Weinstein, John McCalpin, Anthony Persechini, David Anderson, David Harrison, Jim Helman, Michael Zeitlin, Robert Olson, Roger Fujii, and Jean-Francois Panisset). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kirk johnson `Eat blue dogs tuna@masala.lcs.mit.edu and dig life.'